Richard Morton

b.? d.1 February 1729/30
MD Cantab(1695) FRCP(1707)

Richard Morton, M.D., was the only son of Dr. Richard Morton, a Fellow of the College before mentioned. He was created doctor of medicine at Cambridge, as a member of Catherine hall, in 1695; was admitted a Candidate of the College of Physicians 22nd December, 1696: and a Fellow 22nd December, 1707. Dr. Morton was appointed physician to Greenwich hospital, in April, 1716, and died there 1st February, 1729— 30. He has some verses prefixed to his father’s Pyretologia.